AI Readiness Audit
Know where AI pays off, in 3 weeks.
Everyone wants an AI plan. Few know where it pays.
Leaders get asked for an AI strategy before anyone has mapped how the work happens today, so tools get bought for the wrong jobs.
We map how the work really happens, score every opportunity, and hand you a roadmap and 3 build specs detailed enough to start from.
- Time
- 3 weeks
- Price
- $18,000, credited toward a build with us if you go ahead
- Deliverable
- Opportunity map, roadmap, and 3 build specs
Where it fits
Advise, because the output is a decision: where AI and automation are worth deploying, what to build first, and what to leave alone. Any building comes later, with us, with your team, or with another vendor.
This is right when
- Your team of five to two hundred spends real hours on repetitive coordination, and nobody has mapped where those hours go.
- Leadership wants an AI plan, and you would rather have an honest one before anyone buys tools.
- You suspect the stack costs more than it returns.
Not the right engagement when
- You already know which workflow you want changed.Go straight to Workflow automation or Custom tools.
- The question is which channels and platforms deserve the budget.Look at Digital strategy.
- You have one consequential decision, not an operation to map.Start with Ground Truth.
What we do
Interviews with five to eight people across the team. We follow the work through email, spreadsheets, CRM, and the tools nobody admits to using, and inventory the stack and what it costs.
Every opportunity scored four ways: hours saved, revenue affected, risk if it goes wrong, and how hard it is to build. Plain automation is separated from the places where a model is the right tool.
A prioritized roadmap and three build specs: what each does, what it connects to, what it costs, and how you will know it worked. A readout with your leadership team.
- Opportunity mapEvery candidate, scored and ranked, with the ones to skip and why.
- RoadmapThe order of builds, what each depends on, and a 90-day and 12-month view.
- Three build specsDetailed enough for us, your team, or another vendor to build from.
- Stack recommendationsWhat to keep, replace, or cancel. Often the quickest savings in the audit.
- Readout and 30-day check-inOne session to present, one to answer what came up after.
- NielsenIQLauren, in-house role, 2022 to 2024A stack audit replaced platforms nobody was using and cut $250K a year before any new tool was built. The same audit found the opportunity that grew inbound leads 7x.
- Often comes beforeNothing. The audit is a starting point.
- Often leads toBuild with us, and the audit fee comes off the first invoice. Build in house from the specs. Or keep us on as Fractional marketing leadership while your team builds. Some candidates on the map are marked to skip, and building nothing yet is a legitimate answer.
Audit first, or straight to a build?
If you already know which workflow you want changed, go straight to a scoped build. The audit is not a prerequisite. If you do not know where AI pays, the audit finds out, and part of its answer is what not to build. On the call we tell you which.
- Workflow automationYour team gets back the hours lost to busywork.From $18,000
- Custom toolsThe software your spreadsheet wants to be.From $30,000
- Digital strategyOne plan for every channel you run.$22,000